Canonical Engineering Director, App Stores Jobs in Nigeria

Canonical Engineering Director, App Stores Jobs in Nigeria

Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company.

We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors.

Ubuntu means 'humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.

Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.

Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

Location: Lagos

Job Description

We are hiring an Engineering Director to lead multiple distributed teams of exceptional back-end Golang and Python developers, to build the machinery which delivers apps, updates and images to millions of users and devices running Ubuntu on desktop, IoT, and cloud.

In this senior role, you will manage and mentor multiple engineering managers and developers, shaping roadmaps, assessing and improving skills, driving quality and maintaining security across dozens of interconnected services.

You will also engage with other teams in Canonical as well as with customers to ensure consistency across architectures, requirements and priorities.

As an Engineering Director at Canonical you own both the product and the team, and are entrusted to ensure that they continually improve, deliver on roadmap commitments, balance development with production operations, and keep a healthy and collaborative dynamic within the team and across other teams within Canonical.

You will influence culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your teams on strategy and execution.

We develop and operate high-traffic mission critical web services, and expect engineering leaders to be fluent in the language, architecture and components that their team uses.

Technical review and architectural leadership are part of the job.

As an Engineering Director, the commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality and performance optimisation are equally important technical responsibilities, as is the requirement for fair and clear management, and the obligation to ensure a high performing team.

Key Responsibilities

Provide senior engineering leadership to guide

the design, development and operational efficiency of a collection of interrelated services

Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development

Demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals

Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders

Lead modern, agile software development practices

Ensure a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values

Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation

Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners

Work from home with global travel twice yearly for 2 weeks at a time for company events

Requirements

Valued Skills and Experience

Prior management roles leading globally distributed engineering teams

Experience with large scale production web services development and operations

You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it

You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software

You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies

You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
Software development experience in Python or Golang

Effective written and verbal communication skills

Practical experience with Linux system administration

What Canonical Offers

Personal learning and development budget

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual leave

Priority Pass for travel.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see: Canonical Engineering Director, App Stores Jobs in Nigeria

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